Because of the customs checks for example in the potential queues at the border so I think that the food supplies and food manufacturers are Rights Award about the dangers Tesco has confirmed plans to cut thousands of jobs around 9000 are at risk at its head office and in stores across the U.K. The supermarket chain says it hopes to redeploy around half of those affected to new roles Rob Young has more it's reviewing its fresh food and bakery counters in an awful lot of it stores there are hundreds of these across the country and if there are fewer people selling fewer products from those particular counters that then could have a ripple effect of a knock on right throughout the business it would have for example affect delivery drivers as well police searching for a man who went missing after a night out on Teesside have found a body 22 year old Luke Jobson vanished after an apparent altercation in Yarm in the early hours of Saturday 3 teenagers are being questioned Egyptian officials say Laura plumber a British woman jailed for possessing painkillers has been released from jail the 34 year old who's from Hull was sentenced to 3 years in 2017 for taking the painkiller Tramadol into the country she's always said she had no idea it was illegal in Egypt New research suggests 4 of the 5 best selling cars in the U.K. Are vulnerable to keyless theft the consumer group which has found the Ford Fiesta Volkswagen Golf Miss Nissen cash car and Ford Focus are all risk of thieves using technology to bypass their entry systems the Society of Motor Manufacturers and traders says new cars are more secure than ever but Richard headland editor in chief of which says that doesn't appear to be entirely true cars are generally more secure but this is a vulnerability in cars is not acceptable the irony of this is whilst it's standard on some cars there are a lot of cars actually make you pay extra to have keyless entry and start you know in in some cases up $700.00 pounds so you're paying extra for this convenience but in actual fact also paying hundreds of pounds to make your call. Less secure and look ahead at tonight's weather plenty of clear spells arounds tonight and it will become frosty to many places wintry showers will continue in the northwest of the country later in the night rain and snow will spread into southwest England and parts of the Northwest overnight lows of between minus one and minus 2 degrees Celsius B.B.C. News It's 3 minutes past 8 full view for voices for Somerset Pennsylvania because that is now in places like. Easy Somerset's connected with Charley tell you. It take keys out of cars to make the keyless Who'd a thought that would have had an implication on the safety and security of them I mean. It's just totally unexpected. 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I spent yesterday framing a lot a lot of framing or sell it wasn't bad but we did a lot of framing yesterday and basically I bought loads of old stuff you can get so much old really old nice stuff just by looking on online auction sites and these are things which are about Somerset so I obviously am a massive Somerset geek love the place much noticed and I go out and I will find stuff on let's be honest and will type in things that are old pictures of you know Glastonbury or wells or more whatever happens to be and and up crop these fantastic old photographs a lot of them are old postcards so they're not like one off photos and lots of postcards imprints of quite cheap you know a couple of quid really and the thing I love about them is they often have a picture of the front but they also have picture the back of the postcards you can read the message that was sent on the back of the postcard got a great one yesterday because we did all this framing and I got bitten by the bug by some more I need to stop now because the frames are quite expensive if they see the little postcards if I may have to buy tons of frames for them it all adds up but the we did lots framing loads of that going on we kind of had the problem because these old things one of them I think the oldest thing up was about 300 years old drawing of Wells Cathedral and it's the I didn't get I could go for a specified nicely bespoke frame and you know spend a few 100 quid probably on that as it was we just went to Iran and one thought would just get something which will fit it for now and if we think it looks terrible we'll buy a proper one but we have the money to do it most so we did that spend about 2 hours last night framing them up you know those little metal things which hold the thing in the back of bicyclists prize them open again and your nails got my thumb is starting to come away from a now except to use it so many times that's not so that's all done then the next job you get all those piled up there in front of the telly the moment all piled up waiting to go on the wall that it was another massive jobs put up in the war begin to think it's not worth it beginning to think but it certainly. Fully thinking up with some pictures up online when I when I get them all up there some beautiful stuff lovely picture. Postcard sent in 1909 of which is very nice indeed that was very close to the it might have even been the year that the abbey returned to the Church of England and the ship there were lots of other great stuff in there as well maps of Bath kind of thing is an old lovely picture of the river I even. Love it's beautiful very very nice indeed but that was what my Sunday was spent doing very unglamorous I'm afraid wandering around the shop buying tons of different frames all different sizes they were raking in. What you may come through the trolley full of frames like I said pictures will go up online keep. All of those there all some of that base B.B.C. Some ascents connected with Charlie tied B.B.C. . I'm going up Old Spice online to have to wait till I move into a bigger place. Are we talking here on the programme is always. Heading to. Finding out a bit more about one of the galleries is called Make. An exhibition which has been going on. About making things we're hearing from one of the artists next. That's Prince and the revolution and runs very bare I ate his now 19 minutes past 8 Good evening welcome to the show if you're just joining us this is connected and on this show every evening between 7 and 10 on the weekdays we look at arts on a Monday we do sport and measure on a Tuesday health and well being on a Wednesday social media on a Thursday and everything else on a Friday said today you have worked out that it is arts night and I'm very pleased to say we're talking visual art on the program now we've already had some singers on the program the 1st hour today we're heading to Bruton to Hauser and we're Mark ready is an artist who is you exhibited there at the moment Mark and we see your work on display there now while there's a new gallery there which is just opened up on the high street in Britain and it's called make house room with Somerset and it's a new gallery this is this is the 2nd show it's called leveling traditions the 2nd show and this gallery the purpose of the gallery is to to bring together. Designers and makers and and it's looking at the crafted object so there is obviously a real nice sauce in craft and making at the moment. It seems in every field and this is quite a thrilling time for cross when you are a craftsman up in heaven told that's that's the sort of thing you do if you have a speciality spend your days whittling is that the kind of thing you do you can you could call it with filling or there is a slightly Rafah is a refined of soaring of whistling and I think I've debased you a bit there like you've sort of overtook the tools that I you know my word but also how you use a relatively primitive in the tools where you. It also has been used I suppose for a 1000 years I don't use power tools I use simple hand tools or an axe out of your box and not only that but rather a rather sharp but beautiful. Knife or carving. And I'm going to get stopped by the police on the way you know I did half expect to be . Sort of frisked before I came into the building there's the most beautiful tool which is a curved knife a curved knife which I use for carving the bowls of vessels it looks like the tiny fraction of an ice cream scoop to sort of describe it it's exactly narrow razor sharp and it actually has a lovely top and really what I do is I carve vessels from green wood the wood that I use is indigenous hardwood trees not but the fruit woods I love apple pear Cherry plant walnut and I I carve and make spoons. Spoon spoon excellent you know what we haven't figured Springs nearly enough on this program so I'm delighted that we've got someone here who can tell us about it just making a spoon in particular I'm thinking in Wales Of course there's the loves Prince isn't there which is a very strong tradition. Well here we are looking at what we got there loads of wooden spoons lots of with the spent here. The spoon the spoon I mean I've always been a sculptor and maker. I've been a book illustrator I've been a book illustrator art director and a designer but through through through my life the one abiding motif that stuck with me is the making of the spoon and I love the spoon because the spin. This has all the attributes of a sculptural object. But in the end its only purpose is nourishment its purpose is to feed you it's small it's intimate it's domestic. It's a vessel man's 1st vessel and I suppose until maybe hundreds and hundreds of years everybody would carry a spoon with them carry their own spirit spin. So the value that the spin possesses . I feel is quite important maybe it's reminds me of the small things in life are important maybe. Not in the the bigger things that we all stretch and quest for what could be better than what we could be more. Thrilling than. An object of a well loved object that he uses every day. In fact in my top pocket I have a lovely little Mulberry spoon that was actually carved from a tree that had fallen in light scary manner while the spirit of used every day for 2 years and it goes with me everywhere. Gosh you take your own spin really a lot like you said people used to do you know you bring your own spoon of course you are the perfect guest for a dinner party save washing know it bring it on yourself well that is a humble The object isn't it and like when you talk about its history they sort of realize actually we take these tiny things for granted and if you can imagine there is barely a house and some of that doesn't have a wooden spoon in it exactly and then there's maybe maybe its worth. When we were with one of them is throwing throwing sort of stainless steel piece of cutlery straight in the drawer at the door it's not it's more interesting and it's more. It's a nice. Too nice a thing to treasure a precious object and. Maybe people still do that with mugs I wouldn't say I mean I think people have still very proprietorial about a mug you know the mug with the with the daisy on it the mug with the elephant Here's the mug with you know if you can if you stretch and look for the mug in the cupboard you probably always go to the same one I got to so there's this there's obviously something about the familiarity of using something daily that actually is important to someone's life and this comes that this is what. We like. This is what this is what I feel the spoon is a symbol of we'll spend you know 14 hours in front of the screen every day. And maybe perhaps perhaps we've lost contact with the idea of making things and objects that are well made in objects that have a have been made with love and there is a. There is in the city I think for folks to reconnect and find those things and whether it be going to a print workshop or. Making knitting or. All sorts of other pursuits there's a desire for provenance for story for for. Things of worth you know it's interesting you talk about you know having favorite mugs all that linked to them back to you don't have it with spoons quite so much but there are springs in my cupboard in my drawer that I won't touch I don't like this but they are the one who got this the only clean one that's annoying because my favorite ones make I think it's to do with the shape that quite close over the top of one of the reasons to spill soup down whatever it is but you get that feeling that you get that sort of link to it and I suppose the wooden spoon goes back more than that take take me through a process then you've got you've got your axe and your knife in the early life as well so do you presume you know just go down and chop down a tree that you fancy the look of well some of the some of the wood some of the wood I use is Branch wood and it's moved it is just simply foraged. The wood I mean I think everybody that knows me knows that I'm always on the lookout for. Interesting buthe So I do find from time to time. A log will just turn up from I know I know I know I've source my wood from various estates and from friends who are gardeners for instance and and my own wood. And there's something quite nice about using. Wood that just comes to you because then you're forced to work with a particular branch or shape which might have peculiarities so in a way the branch often dictates what you're going to make from it and so that brings a little bit of magic to the object that you finally end up with but but. Essentially my favorites of the moment I'm I'm working with a plum. I have some lovely plum wood which is hard and colored in a beautiful way and it's just a delight to work does each we know each What is different you said. Does each one lend itself to being a different spoon could you have one spoon which works best as a you know a longer ladle or something like that and and others better for desserts or even teaspoons of things like that you know not not really anything just it's just it's just you know it's just the is the is the branch or log that presents itself that's going to dictate. The shape and style but you know the but the but basically the words that are preferable are those that are actually quite hard and and close grained and obviously one is always looking also for wood that has interest that has pattern that has color that has time that actually is going to deliver and make something that's a little bit more interesting than just the boring wood spoon or essentially using the word in an interesting way I'm holding up a spoon now where. The bowl of the spin is comprised as you look into the bowl you can see concentric circles of grain so I'm using the grain of the wood to create a pattern and a. Decorative if you like decorative. Finish to the object almost looks like you've drawn those on the so carefully done round they're supposed practically speaking as well you need something it's watertight for when you you know eating soup or cereal or whatever happens to be with this big is all would pretty much watertight you don't have to look at how we think it's cracked when I close so some of the wood I do put finish but often not and I think you know. Would use wood actually has antibacterial properties and I think. They say that they actually would spins are actually more like a wood chopping board is more hygienic than. Metal glass or plastic so I wouldn't worry about that and actually after the spin that I use has had no finish on it. Did in fact its pattern is actually become a more beautiful object after 2 years of use that was when I 1st made it when when did you 1st. Get this link to the spoon when did you 1st actually do you know what this is a beautiful simple object and when did you stop short of chucking a few in a drawer and then think about them differently. It's been a life's passion. It's a long it's a little bit of a long story or try and compact it if you like for the year 2000 I was commissioned by Tony Blair to make a new symbol for Britain for the millennium experience so you really do remember do you remember the dome I do I went to the day I remember because I was only young at that point I remember the human body going inside a lot that was probably the highlight for me well I'm my symbol the symbol of the millennium Yeah it was one of my sculptures and at that time I was only making work from bronze metal and bronze and welded metal What was it what did you create it was I think it was a figure you would of see it you would have seen it was at the time it was on every Tesco bag and on every on every British Airways plane on every It was just ubiquitous Yeah but that project was so damaging emotionally it was a politically charged I went into it naively thinking it was going to be lovely and I think if you spoke to anybody who who worked on that project I think it was it was not healthy. And that actually star stopped making. In fact the last object that I made out of metal was the millennium symbol got it turned it turned you off it so much completely well but so. Mentally speaking was it was something that if your mental health yeah yes it was exactly it was exactly that it was just I just could I felt it was so it was such an. A difficult project that I didn't want to make it any more but actually with the with the with the money that I made from that project with the I mean. In the year 2000 I actually bought a small piece of Portland and not one that with the idea of it becoming a place for. Me. A source of material but just merely as a place to go is a place for recuperation it seemed like it was the nicest thing that I could do the best thing I thought I could do at the time was by apiece. the woodland the piece of land i did yeah i personally think pace the go in camp or place t. To to have camp fires and cook food and i suppose in that at that's that's when i discovered the spoon and i actually realized that that moment that that sure didn't need sculpture and i didn't need that notion of a sculpture that i realized actually the spoon as an object had possessed the wall of the character and value that i needed in as i'm a can as an artist and for 20 years i've been i've been making spins and i still don't get booed from making them my still approach eat spin with the same vigor and enthusiasm and i love them show you've made me realize how beautiful there's simple spoon is is that great when you hear someone with